Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
The Daily Poem
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🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Today's poem is Robert Hass' "Heroic Simile" - a poem that poets tend to love.
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| 0:31.3 | Welcome back to the Daily Poem here in the Close Reeds Podcast Network. |
| 0:34.6 | I am David Kern, and today's Friday, March 6th, 2020. Today's poem is by an American |
| 0:40.5 | poet named Robert Hass, who was born March 1st, 1941, so he just had his 78th birthday. He served as |
| 0:48.0 | poet laureate of the United States from 95 to 97 and won the National Book Award in 2007, |
| 0:53.2 | shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, and in 2014, |
| 0:56.7 | won the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He was a, or is a fantastic poet. |
| 1:02.5 | He also wrote a great book called A Little Book on Form, which I have mentioned on this podcast before. |
| 1:08.2 | The poem that I'm going to read today is called Heroic Simile, which is from the |
| 1:13.4 | 1976 issue of the Atlantic. It's one of his more beloved poems, and I'm going to read it and then |
| 1:20.7 | offer a few comments with the help of a couple of other poets who have some things to say about |
| 1:26.5 | this poem. |
| 1:30.0 | So again, here it is Robert Haas' heroic simile. |
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